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Describe the initiative in your own words. Discuss how your chosen initiative addresses each of the three strategies identified in the UN Trafficking Protocol.

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Fighting human trafficking

Overview: The UN Trafficking Protocol provides an integrated framework for fighting human trafficking through a 3-pronged strategy of prevention of trafficking, prosecution of traffickers, and protection of victims. The goal of this assignment is to identify examples that are being taken at the local, regional, and/or international level to fight
human trafficking, and prepare a brief report.

Assignment:

Write a report on a human trafficking initiative of your choice
1. Conduct on-line research to identify one specific initiative(found down below) to fight human trafficking at the local level. The initiatives can be by non-governmental, governmental, or supranational groups or organizations, and can focus on one or more types of trafficking. HINT: Select an initiative that engages in different types of actions at different
levels, so you can relate them to the various aspects of the UN strategy. View the following website to identify initiatives:

http://www.endslaverynow.org/act/volunteer?country=1405&state=&city =#filter
(Links to an external site.)

*Note that you are not required to use this website. You may find initiatives by other means, but this site may be helpful in your search.

1. Write a report addressing the following points for each of your three specific initiatives:Local Initiative (within Illinois)

1. Describe the initiative (e.g., group identity and mission) in your own words (2 points).

2. Discuss how your chosen initiative addresses each of the three strategies identified in the UN Trafficking Protocol. Be sure that you provide specific examples and be explicit in making connections in your analysis. If the initiative does not address each of the strategies, report on that (3 points).

3. Critique your chosen initiative by outlining its strengths and weaknesses. Again, make sure to incorporate course concepts in your critique as a way of demonstrating your understanding (2 points).

4. Your assignment must meet the following requirements (4 points)
a. Typed, double-spaced, with 12 point font and 1” margins
b. Maximum 3 pages in length
c. Organized using the letters A, B, C
d. Free from grammar and spelling errors
e. If you use the textbook or outside sources to support your answers, cite your sources (APA formatting).

Identify the purpose of the research and describe the claims and conclusions the author(s) make(s). Describe the results of the research and how they conducted it. Do the results support the author(s) claims? How does this research fit into the big picture?

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Social Media Week 2

Select a scholarly article on social media and education from one of the APUS Library databases. Make sure you are choosing a peer-reviewed article from an academic journal.

https://www.apus.edu/apus-library/index.html

Write a short paper, 500-750 words in length, in which you:
Summarize the article BRIEFLY. (1 paragraph)
Identify the purpose of the research and describe the claims and conclusions the author(s) make(s). (1 paragraph)
Describe the results of the research and how they conducted it. Do the results support the author(s) claims? (1 paragraph)
How does this research fit into the big picture? Connect your article with the lessons from the week or the course as a whole. (1 paragraph)
In your opinion, can you apply this research to “real life?” (1 paragraph)

How does SANTŌ Kyōden critique society in Playboy Roasted á la Edo? Include a close analysis of an image, text, or visual-verbal element in your response.

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Playboy Roasted á la Edo

Expressing an opinion and persuading others to see the validity of that opinion by marshalling evidence and crafting words is a necessary skill for participating in a society that values the open exchange of ideas. With that purpose in mind, students will compose a response to the texts we have read in Unit 2, focusing on “close reading” of an image or visual-verbal text.

Task:

Select one prompt below. Then, write a response of 500 to 750 words. Submit the response in Canvas by Friday.

-How does SANTŌ Kyōden critique society in Playboy Roasted á la Edo? Include a close analysis of an image, text, or visual-verbal element in your response.

Discuss the responsibilities that management has to ensure that everyone has a fair opportunity to work and earn a living. What training programs should be in place? What resources should be available for all employees including managers?

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Executive Order on Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation.

This EO focuses on ensuring that employers do not discriminate on the basis of gender or sexual orientation. Research this EO and from an employers’ perspective, discuss the responsibilities that management has to ensure that everyone has a fair opportunity to work and earn a living. What training programs should be in place? What resources should be available for all employees including managers? What role does HR play? Think about discrimination laws and why they were created.

What is the APN’s obligation to the patient? Is the APN required to inform Jocelyn’s parents about her sexual activity? Can Jocelyn give her informed consent? What type of contraceptive is the best choice for Jocelyn?

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Contraception for Adolescents

The United States has the highest teen pregnancy rate among developed countries. In recent years, however, the teen pregnancy rate has been dropping, which is attributed largely to improved contraceptive use. Counseling is particularly important in adolescent girls to ensure they understand their contraceptive options and use contraception consistently. One-third of teenagers have not received education in their schools about contraception. Counseling should provide an opportunity for adolescents to explore the emotional, physical, and financial consequences of sexual activity with a knowledgeable, nonjudgmental adult. In the United States, adolescent girls have their first sexual experience at 17 years of age on average, and 7 of 10 have intercourse by the time they are 19 years of age, but most do not marry until their mid-20s. Therefore, they may be at increased risk of unintended pregnancy and STDs for several years. From 2005 through 2008, 84% of sexually active teenaged girls used contraceptives during their first sexual encounter. A sexually active teen who does not use contraception has a 90% chance of becoming pregnant within a year.
More than half of sexually active adolescent girls who use contraception take an oral formulation. Oral contraceptives are a safe choice for them, even those who smoke. The absolute risk of thrombosis with use of combined oral contraceptives in a healthy adolescent is 0.05% per year. However, teens are more than twice as likely to become pregnant while using the pill for contraception compared with women aged ≥30 years, largely due to inconsistent use. Most adolescents have difficulty using any contraceptive method consistently, including the pill. Remembering to take a dose often is difficult during weekends away, family vacations, trips to visit relatives, or visits to noncustodial parents. Given a choice, most adolescent girls choose a long-acting contraceptive option.

Jocelyn is a 15-year-old adolescent girl who asks her primary care clinician for a refill of her prescription for combined oral contraceptives. She began taking the pill 1 year ago to help control her acne. Since then, she has become sexually active. She denies experiencing breast tenderness, headaches, or breakthrough bleeding. However, Jocelyn says that because of her busy schedule in school and in a women’s soccer program, she does not always remember to take the pill on time. She is planning on going to college and has no interest in starting a family for several years. Jocelyn does not smoke and has no chronic medical illness. No positive findings for disease were found during the physical assessment and Body mass index (BMI): 23 kg/m2

1. What is the APN’s obligation to the patient?

2. Is the APN required to inform Jocelyn’s parents about her sexual activity?

3. Can Jocelyn give her informed consent?

4. What type of contraceptive is the best choice for Jocelyn?

Do you agree or disagree with the text? Why or why not? What is the most convincing aspect of the text’s analysis of the subjects involved?

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Compare and Contrast: Art/Media/Other

1. What is the central thesis of this text? Provide a quote in in-text MLA format to substantiate your answer.

2. Do you agree or disagree with the text? Why or why not? What is the most convincing aspect of the text’s analysis of the subjects involved? Provide a quote in in-text MLA format to substantiate your answer.

What is the Advanced Practice Nurse’s ethical duty in the above scenario? What is the ethical duty of the parents when thinking about the “best interests” of the child? Should the Advanced Practice Nurse continue the patient-parent relationship and why?

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Refusing Pediatric Vaccinations

Phoenix, a 24-month-old boy, is brought in by his mother for his annual well-child physical examination. The provider notices that the child has yet to receive vaccination against measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) and reminds his mother of the need to have her son immunized. The mother is hesitant and states that she has heard of the links between MMR and autism. Citing several recent cases of measles in the community, the physician stresses the need for the MMR vaccine to protect the young child, because they may be in the midst of a measles outbreak. He tells her that mortality rates range between 1 and 3 of every 1000 cases and that acute encephalitis, which may cause permanent brain damage, occurs in about 1 of every 1000 cases. The mother counters that her chiropractor has discussed the issue of vaccination with her, including the topic of vaccination safety. In addition, the chiropractor discussed immune function and noted that treatments such as spinal manipulation and nutritional supplements, although not an alternative to vaccination, may optimize her son’s natural immune function. The provider is frustrated and tells her that he is not comfortable with continuing care for Phoenix if she chooses not to listen to his professional advice. The provider wonders what he could have done differently to avoid this impasse.

1. What is the Advanced Practice Nurse’s ethical duty in the above scenario?

2. What is the ethical duty of the parents when thinking about the “best interests” of the child?

3. Should the Advanced Practice Nurse continue the patient-parent relationship and why?

4. What information does the Advanced Practice Nurse need to give the parents for them to make an informed decision?

What is Shari’s risk of being a CF carrier? What are the pros and cons of knowing that one is a carrier for an autosomal condition? What role should Shari play in deciding about CF carrier testing? What are the risks and benefits of knowing one is a BRCA carrier?

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Genetic Testing & Screening of Children

Every year, approximately 4 million children undergo genetic testing as part of newborn screening. This is the most common form of genetic testing in the entire population. Other children undergo genetic testing as part of a diagnostic workup for clinical problems (from progressive muscle weakness to developmental delays) or as part of research protocols or family linkage analyses. With the completion of the human genome project, there are hopes that genetic medicine will evolve into personalized medicine and become an integral part of medical practice. The expansion of genetic testing and screening in pediatrics raises ethical issues about the limits of parental autonomy, whose consent is needed, and what rights to privacy, if any, do children have with respect to their parents.

Shari, a 15-year-old, comes to your office with her mother. Her younger brother, Bob, had an abnormal newborn screen for cystic fibrosis (CF), but a sweat test result was negative, indicating that he does not have CF. Bob was found to have one CF mutation (delta F507, the most common mutation). Both parents were screened and found to have delta F507. Shari is very healthy and tall and her parents and physicians are not concerned that she has CF, but her parents wants to know if Shari can be tested for being a carrier. Also, her mother, 2 maternal aunts, and maternal grandmother all had breast cancer in their early 30s. They have been tested and found to have BRCA mutation. Shari’s mom wants Shari tested for the BRCA mutation so that if she is a carrier, she will get appropriate screening even though there is no breast cancer in her father’s family. Shari tells her mother that she is ambivalent about genetic testing.

1. What is Shari’s risk of being a CF carrier?

2. What are the pros and cons of knowing that one is a carrier for an autosomal condition?

3. What role should Shari play in deciding about CF carrier testing?

4. What are the risks and benefits of knowing one is a BRCA carrier?

Which techniques will you employ in data analysis? Why are these techniques the most suitable to answer questions regarding your chosen topic and in alignment with your selected research approach?

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Standard of Facility Maintenance (SOFM)

The preservation and conservation of library materials goes beyond the care and handling of rare books and artifacts. It applies to all materials housed within the physical infrastructure of the library. Implementing a Standard of Facility Maintenance (SOFM) process where every library utilizes the same technology, housing of materials, and climate control, a universal environment is created within every library. Libraries could then loan their valuable collections with the assurance the collections would be safe and preserved.

Identify whether you are conducting a quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-methods study and what specific approach you are taking (the type of quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-methods study).
Which method(s) will you employ in order to gather data?
How is this data going to be analyzed?
Which techniques will you employ in data analysis?
Why are these techniques the most suitable to answer questions regarding your chosen topic and in alignment with your selected research approach?
What potential ethical issues will you face and how will you structure your study to eliminate or manage them?

Does the provider have an ethical obligation to intervene on behalf of the fetus as a patient? What are the best interests of the pregnant woman and how are they determined? What ethical considerations, other than best interests, can inform the decision-making process?

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Maternal-Fetal Conflict

Pregnancy is a unique circumstance in medical ethics because of the absolute requirement to access the fetus only through intervention on the pregnant woman. Increasingly, as medical advances have offered the promise of therapy to the fetus, fetal interests have been considered separately from maternal interests by clinicians, policy makers, and the bioethics community. This is a somewhat artificial distinction, as usually maternal and fetal interests are aligned, and care of the fetus is intertwined with and dependent on care of the pregnant woman.
When conflict arises between maternal and fetal interests (eg, treatment of cancer during pregnancy that may result in fetal demise), a variety of ethical frameworks may be useful to consider for conflict resolution and decision-making. Helpful theoretical approaches include case-based analysis, the ethics of care, feminist theory, and traditional ethical principlism that uses the framework of autonomy, beneficence and nonmaleficence, and justice. In addition, societal and practitioner values can elevate emotionally laden issues of obstetric conflict and benefit from a comprehensive, thoughtful analysis from a variety of perspectives.
Different theoretical approaches all agree with the importance of promoting the autonomy and bodily integrity of the pregnant woman, ensuring that she has the information to provide a fully informed consent that is consistent with her values regarding pregnancy outcome.

In cases in which her decision may harm her fetus, coercion to force treatment is never justified. In extraordinary cases, legal intervention has been attempted. Using the courts to enforce treatment compliance by pregnant women has frequently been unsuccessful or has activated processes that are hasty and incomplete, and such court rulings are frequently overturned on appeal. Evidence shows that continuing a trusting, compassionate, professional relationship with the pregnant woman generally results in greater success in improving maternal and child health. Feminist ethics perspectives can help detect subtle, gender-based biases in clinicians’ approaches to conflict resolution and support collaborative decision-making for the pregnant woman and her health care team.

Jesse is a 24-year-old who presents in active labor with no prenatal care. The fetus appears to be term, quite large, and at risk for dystocia. Jesse is told that a cesarean birth is the best route of delivery for the fetus’ well-being. She declines the operation and requests a natural childbirth. Although the fetus begins to have heart rate deceleration consistent with fetal distress, Jesse continues to decline the recommended cesarean delivery.
1. Does the provider have an ethical obligation to intervene on behalf of the fetus as a patient?

2. What are the best interests of the pregnant woman and how are they determined?

3. What are the best interests of the fetus and how are they determined?

4. What ethical considerations, other than best interests, can inform the decision-making process?

5. Can the pregnant woman refuse the recommended treatment, particularly if harm is expected to come to the fetus?